Turkey experiences driest August in 33 yrs: Report
Turkey has experienced the Turkey August in the last 33 years, the country’s meteorological authority said. In a report, the…
Turkey has experienced the Turkey August in the last 33 years, the country’s meteorological authority said. In a report, the…
About 90,000 people in four provinces of Sri Lanka have been affected by droughts with Jaffna being the worst hit district, the Disaster Management Center (DMC) said on Sunday.
Kenyan authorities said that country was ramping up drought response interventions to mitigate the impacts of the deteriorating drought, which has left more than 6 million people food insecure.
Turkey is experiencing a severe drought as dams around the country's major cities have reached low levels amid a lack of rain and an unusually warm winter stemming from global climate change.
Human-caused climate change made agricultural and ecological droughts in the North Hemisphere extratropics at least 20 times more likely, the researchers found.
The state government said that there has been a 50 per cent drop in the rainfall and reservoirs have reached a 60 per cent drop.
The agricultural lands have dried up, the Aman rice seeds which were sown to prepare seed beds with a hope of rains have been practically lost due to lack of rains, most of the water bodies, small rivers and irrigation canals have dried up.
"Domestic tractor sales growth, often regarded as the major gauge to track rural economy, has been contracting for the past four months, as compared to high double digit growth seen in late 2018. However, the contraction has widened to 16 per cent YoY in May as compared to 13.2 per cent YoY in the previous month."
Expressing concern over drought like situation in Himachal Pradesh due to lack of snow and rain this year, Chief Minister…
Himachal Pradesh government on Thursday directed departments to prepare contingency plans for drought like situation in the state this year…
